:30:00
I don't want to sit here.
:30:02
I want to sit there.
:30:04
You heard what Lord Alfred said.
:30:07
I want everyone
to look at us.
:30:09
I want everyone to say,
:30:11
"Look - there's Oscar Wilde
with his boy. "
:30:22
So, what shall we let people
see us eating?
:30:26
Foie gras and lobster.
:30:28
And champagne.
:30:29
For two.
:30:30
We do everything together.
:30:32
Very good, Mr Wilde.
:30:41
I think he enjoyed
thrashing me.
:30:45
All my family are mad.
:30:48
My uncle slit his throat
last year.
:30:51
In a railway hotel.
:30:53
Which station?
:30:56
Euston.
:30:57
Ah.
:30:58
All life's really
serious journeys
:31:00
involve a railway terminus.
:31:04
And now I must go
to the station myself.
:31:07
Sarah Bernhardt thinks
she knows better than I do
:31:10
how to play Salome.
:31:11
Stay.
:31:14
Please stay.
:31:17
At least... at least
till this evening.
:31:22
Sarah is divine, as you are.
:31:24
She will be wonderful
at the play's climax
:31:27
when Salome kisses the lips
:31:29
of the severed head
of John the Baptist.
:31:31
"Ah, thou wouldst not suffer me
:31:33
"to kiss thy mouth, Jokanaan. "
:31:35
Jokanaan is an old
Hebrew name for John.
:31:38
"Well, I will kiss it now.
:31:39
"I will bite it with my teeth
:31:41
"as one bites a ripe fruit.
:31:44
"Yes... I will kiss
thy mouth, Jokanaan.
:31:47
"Thy body is white
:31:48
"like the snows that lie
on the mountains.
:31:52
"Like the snows that lie
on the mountains of Judaea
:31:55
"and come down into the valleys.
:31:58
"The roses in the garden
of the Queen of Arabia